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Descrição da empresa
Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods.
Founded in **, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation.
In **, Continental generated sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets.
Guided by the vision of being the customer's first choice for material-driven solutions, the ContiTech group sector focuses on development competence and material expertise for products and systems made of rubber, plastics, metal, and fabrics.
These can also be equipped with electronic components in order to optimize them functionally for individual services.
ContiTech's industrial growth areas are primarily in the areas of energy, agriculture, construction, and surfaces.
In addition, ContiTech serves the automotive and transportation industries as well as rail transport.
Descrição da vaga
The role of Regional Category Buyer is responsible for the strategic sourcing and performing all PUR activities of a certain material/service field and its subcategories, with the objective of optimal supply and generating a maximum profit contribution in compliance with the company's policies and purchasing guidelines.
This position reports functionally to the Head of Global Category and directly to the Regional Cluster Lead and is expected to steer the implementation of the respective Category Strategy.
Your tasks
Act as interface and represent the interests of Continental and the Purchasing Community towards all internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Engineering, Plants, Suppliers)
Understands the business and purchasing strategy to derive actions for own managed category
Guide, support and train local and central stakeholders to execute with the right tools, methods and processes
Consults internal customers for information regarding provision of goods/services, purchasing constraints and process optimization in his/her area of responsibility.
Plans and organizes regular meetings with internal key customers.
Clarifies technical and commercial requirements together with the requester and the supplier
Give responses or feedbacks through the given tools in an acceptable period of time.
Develop and sustain (supplier) strategy for respective integrated category in alignment with all relevant stakeholders and supervisors (e.g. Engineering, Regions, Plants) and in compliance with all relevant purchasing processes, guidelines and procedures
Understand multiple data management systems and manage data analytics for the respective integrated category (identify spend profile and concentration, estimate / predict demand etc)
Turns strategy into concrete actions and tangible goals as well as reporting relevant KPIs to track progress where applicable
Ensures stakeholder satisfaction through transparent and early communication / involvement
Drive the adoption of digital tools and procurement technologies (e.g., e-sourcing platforms, AI-driven analytics) to enhance efficiency, transparency, and decision-making.
To ensure maintanance of purchasing (and correlated) policies at the locations, clear users questions and escape topics to other purchasing associates if required.
Identify and push initiation and tendering of regional Projects in cooperation with our internal Customers and the respective leaderships and/or cluster partners.
Supplier Management
Analysis of the global supplier market and conduction of benchmark analysis to derive actions for the global supplier portfolio
Implements and maintains sustainable supplier relationship and conducts Strategic Supplier Meetings to deploy the global integrated category strategy
Responsible for steering the annual supplier evaluation and derives development programs where needed
Performs annual and regular negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation for respective integrated category, actively drives improvement or Total Cost of Ownership programs with suppliers
Monitor if supplier acts in line with Continentals Business Partner Code of Conduct (BPCoC), responsible value chain (RVC) rules and processes and takes actions accordingly
Initiates the New Supplier Introduction Process
Collect Vendors documents and information for submission into VM platforms
Share information and escalation level for Vendor Master and Master Data maintenance.
Support Execution of Market Intelligence studies and ensure the ideal balance of Competition and Pooling through supplier reduction to achieve a maximum cost reduction contribution and best possible synergy effects.
Detect new suppliers and optimize number of existing suppliers.
P2P
Complete handling of the ordering process via CEOS and SAP, including any complaints handling as